PROFESSOR
LORD WINSTON
PROFESSOR LORD WINSTON
Professor Lord Winston is Europe's foremost fertility pioneer. He has been Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at London's Hammersmith
Hospital since 1978 and Professor of Fertility Studies at University of London at the Institute of Obstetrics and
Gynaecology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, since 1987.
Born in 1940, Professor Lord Winston was educated at St Paul's School and London Hospital Medical College, London University.
As a peer he takes the Government Whip (Lord Winston of Hammersmith since 1995) and speaks regularly in the House of Lords on
education, science, medicine and the arts. He was the recent Chairman of the House
of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology and is a board member of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology.
He regularly presents BBC science programmes. Series include "Your Life in Their Hands" (five series), "Making
Babies, "The Human Body" (three
BAFTAs and a Peabody award), "Secret Life of Twins", "Superhuman" (October 2000 - Wellcome Award for Medicine and Biology), "Child of our Time", "Walking with Cavemen" and, most recently, "The Human Mind".
His awards include a Wellcome Senior Research Fellowship 1973-77, a Blair-Bell Lectureship RCOG, 1978, the Cedric Carter Medal, Clinical
Genetics Society, 1993, the Victor Bonney Medal for contributions to surgery, Royal College of Surgeons, 1993 and an Honorary Fellowship from
Queen Mary and Westfield College. He has been a visiting professor at a number of overseas universities and is an honorary fellow of various
learned societies overseas. He was Gold Medallist for the Royal Society of Health in 1998 and received the BMA Gold Award for Medicine in the
Media in 1999 and, in the same year, the Faraday Gold Medal from The Royal Society.
Lord Winston was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 1998. He holds honorary doctorates at three
universities.
He has approximately 300 scientific publications in learned journals including Nature, Science, New England Journal
of Medicine, Lancet) and various books, and writes regularly for the lay press. His interests include directing theatre productions (National Directors'
Award, Edinburgh Festival 1969), matters of Jewish interest, classical music, and skiing.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and a member of The Athenaeum